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Shirts Designed To Coyly Flout Dress Codes
 UPI
A Seattle designer says he has created a cheeky clothing line intended to skirt school dress codes. The idea is to allow kids to express themselves by wearing shirts with disguised messages that would normally get them detention for breaking their school’s dress codes.
Couple Tried To Name Baby "@"
 Reuters
A Chinese couple tried to name their baby "@," claiming the character used in email addresses echoed their love for the child, an official trying to whip the national language into line said Thursday.
Driver a Little Bit Too Late for Brake Job
 UPI
A man who crashed his car into an automobile service center this week in Longview, Wash., had been heading there to get a brake job. The unidentified driver admitted that while going to the service center, the car's brakes stopped working and he sped through the front window of the business.
Mexican Woman Kept Dead Husband By Bed for a Year
 Gunther Hamm
A woman in Mexico City kept the body of her dead husband by her bedside for a year until neighbours, disturbed by the smell, called the police.
China's Hairiest Man Seeks Olympic Torch Duty
 Sam Knight
China's hairiest man, a wannabe pop star who calls himself King Kong, wants to carry the Olympic torch on its journey to Beijing in 2008.
Jumping Fish Plague Florida Region
 UPI
Wildlife officials are struggling with a record pace of incidents involving jumping huge sturgeons hitting people in Florida.
"Too Sexy for My Bus," Woman Told
 Reuters
A German bus driver threatened to throw a 20-year-old sales clerk off his bus in the southern town of Lindau because he said she was too sexy, a newspaper reported Monday.
Mexican Mega-Mushroom a Savoury Stunner
 Colegio de la Frontera Sur
A mushroom weighing more than 20 kilograms has been picked in a forest in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas, university officials say.
Hell of a Name Gets Boy Banned From Australian School
 Agence France-Presse
A boy called Hell has been barred from enrolling in a Catholic school in Australia because his surname jarred with its religious teachings, the child's father said Monday.
Spanish Hotel Lets Guests Smash Rooms
 Harold Heckle
A few lucky people in need of a break from their stress got a chance at some unconventional therapy. A Spanish hotel chain planning renovations at one of its Madrid locations offered 30 "highly stressed out people" - selected by a team of psychologists - the chance to take up sledge hammers and battering rams and smash through its rooms Tuesday.
Beach Bans Men, Courts Women Only
 ABC News
It happens all the time. Boy meets girl and boy annoys girl. So, the Italians have enacted an interesting solution to this problem. They have created a beach strictly for women. No men, children or loud disco music are allowed.
Luck, Love and Superstition for 7-7-07
 Wayne Parry
With apologies to Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry, this Saturday you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Lots of people do, for one simple reason. Saturday will be July 7, 2007, or 7-7-07. In numerological terms, that's about as big as it gets for the superstitious.
Woman Too 'Masculine' for the Women's Bathroom
 Lydia Malmedie
Has anyone ever double-checked the door sign when they saw you standing in the bathroom? Then you are familiar with the bathroom issue many people who do not match certain stereotypical gender norms have to deal with.
3 Illegal Immigrants Hide In Truck Engine
 kpho.com
A 44-year old Mexican man was arrested this week at the Otay Mesa passenger port of entry in San Diego, Calif., after Border Patrol inspectors said they discovered three Mexican citizens hidden inside the engine compartment of his Ford pickup truck entering the U.S. from Mexico.
Ugly Fish is Seen as Aphrodisiac
 Noaki Schwartz
The hagfish is a bottom feeder so repulsive it had a cameo on TV's "Fear Factor." It slimes its enemies, has rows of teeth on its tongue, and feeds on the innards of rotting fish by penetrating any orifice. But cooked and served on a plate, it is considered an aphrodisiac in South Korea.
Courthouse Camera Captures 'Ghost'
 UPI
Paranormal observers from around the United States weighed in via the Internet after a courthouse camera in New Mexico captured a mysterious image.
Vatican Issues "10 Commandments" for Good Motorists
 Philip Pullella
Thou shall not drive under the influence of alcohol. Thou shall respect speed limits. Thou shall not consider a car an object of personal glorification or use it as a place of sin.
Polygamist Community Faces Rare Genetic Disorder
 Jason Szep
In a dusty neighborhood under sheer sandstone cliffs studded with juniper on the Arizona-Utah border, a rare genetic disorder is spreading through polygamous families on a wave of inbreeding.
A Washington Judge Sueds His Dry Cleaners, Seeking $67.3 Million
 Ariel Sabar & Suevon Lee
Roy L. Pearson Jr. wanted to dress sharply for his new job as an administrative law judge here. So when his neighborhood dry cleaner misplaced a pair of expensive pants he had planned to wear his first week on the bench, Judge Pearson was annoyed.
Man Says He Captured Loch Ness on Film
 Ben McConville
The Loch Ness monster is back — and there's video. A man has captured what Nessie watchers say is possible footage of the supposed mythical creature beneath Scotland's most mysterious lake.
Gator Wrestlers Endangered
 Kathleen Kernicky
For almost a century, alligator wrestling was a fixture at Florida's roadside parks, river docks and Native American villages. Now, the shows are skidding onto the endangered list.
Panty Disguise Didn't Help Would-Be Robber Armed with Lighter
 Associated Press
A thief covered his face with a pair of blue women's underwear and used a pistol-shaped cigarette lighter in a botched robbery of a convenience store, police said.
Girls 'Felt Right' Killing Friend
 Reuters
Two Australian schoolgirls who garroted a friend as an experiment to see what it was like to kill someone were on Thursday sentenced to life in jail for a murder a judge said was "gruesome and merciless in the extreme".
It's an Odd World!
 Newswire
A regular collection of weird and wonderful events taking place in our world: Body beautiful; Added-value carwash; Who do you call? Ghostbusters!
Plea Bargain Ends Pilot's Groping Case
 Denise Nix
A Mexican airline pilot, who will not serve time, had been accused of fondling clerks in Manhattan Beach and El Segundo. His lawyer calls decision "frustrating."
Border Cops Recover 1,000 Stolen Wedding Gowns
 Reuters
U.S. border police found 1,000 wedding gowns stolen from a cancer charity and crammed into a truck trying to get into Mexico, federal authorities said on Tuesday.
Teacher Who Threw Feces at Boy May Keep Job
 Scott Valentine
A Toronto school principal who pleaded guilty to throwing human excrement at a 12-year-old boy may get her job back, officials said on Tuesday.
Mexican Police Arrest Taxi Drivers for Showing Porno Films in Cabs
 Associated Press
Three taxi drivers were arrested on charges of showing pornographic DVDs in their cabs in the southern Mexican city Tapachula.
2 Fall Off Cruise Ship in Gulf of Mexico
 Associated Press
A man and woman fell overboard from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico early Sunday, but both were rescued after a four-hour search and appeared to be in good condition, a cruise line spokeswoman said.
Refrigerator Will Toss You Can of Beer
 Estes Thompson
When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a reminder of life on campus: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control.
Former Half-Ton Man Leaves Home for First Time in Five Years
 Olga R. Rodriguez
Manuel Uribe, who once weighed half a ton, left his house Wednesday for the first time in five years.
Six people pushed Uribe's wheel-equipped iron bed out to the street where a mariachi band played and a crowd gathered to see the man who once weighed 1,235 pounds.
Bush Strips Libby of Nickname
 Satire by Andy Borowitz
Just hours after Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was found guilty in his trial relating to the CIA leak scandal, Mr. Libby suffered another setback as President George W. Bush officially stripped him of his nickname in a somber White House ceremony.
Blood-Crying Virgin on the Border
 VivirLatino
Last week there was a sighting of the Virgen de Guadalupe that occurred in a baking pan in Texas. La Virgen's latest trick took place in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, when an image of her allegedly began to shed bloody tears.
Leave Me Be, 98-Yr-Old Mexican Tells Young Admirer
 Reuters
A 98-year-old Mexican woman has filed a legal complaint against a suitor 50 years her junior who she said tried to kiss her and threatened to kill her if she didn't let him move in with her.
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